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|ibticat |istorg of |od |il. 

MONO all the extraordinary 
bounties of the Creator, there 
is not one which has so effect¬ 
ually challenged scientific in¬ 
vestigation, or opened a wider 
field for human enterprise than 
the development of the great 
natural reservoirs of oil, that 
are enclosed beneath the sur¬ 
face of the earth; nor is there a spontaneous 
product in nature which admits of such manifold 
utilization as that mysterious article known in the 
generic nomenclature of Minerology, as Petro¬ 
leum. 

In the opening chapter of the sacred scriptures, 
before the sun and the moon were created—when 
“the earth was void and empty” and when “dark¬ 
ness was upon the face of the deep ”—we are told 
that the Divine Architect spoke the words “ Fiat 
Lux!” “Let there be light!” and out of the ele- 
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merits in chaos there came a light that “ divided 
the darkness.” It is to those remote epochs of the 
creation, that we must refer the inextinguishable 
volcanic fires by which nature pursues her subtle 
alchemy, and conducts those sublime alembics, that 
the science of chemistry has so vainly struggled to 
imitate. From the earliest history of mankind, and 
interwoven with the traditions of the human race, 
the existence of this mysterious product of the 
“ partruition of the earth,” has been known to 
its inhabitants, not alone as a phenomena of the 
material elements, but as a munificent gift to “the 
children of men.” 

The Bible makes frequent reference to Petro¬ 
leum, showing conclusively that it was recognized 
by the Israelites, and regarded by them as a special 
bounty from Providence. Thus, Moses, in his can¬ 
ticle in remembrance of the law and the blessings 
that followed the inheritance of Jacob, says: ( Deut¬ 
eronomy , chap. 32, verse 13,)' “ He set him upon 
high land, that he might eat the fruits of the field, 
that he might suck honey out of the rock, and oil 
out of the hardest stone .” Again, Job , (chap. 29, 
verse 6,) recounting his former happiness, says : “ I 
washed my feet with butter, and the rock 



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me out rivers of oil.” In Leviticus , (chap. 14,) 
the curative properties of this oil is recognized in 
cleansing the leprosy, and in purifying the houses 
and garments from infection ; in fact, employing in 
that remote era the same therapeutic agents that 
the medical faculty of the present day have an¬ 
nounced as one of the wonderful discoveries of 
modern science! But while the children of Israel, 
in their long pupilage under the patriarchs, were 
taught the economies of this extraordinary natural 
product, to restrain them from the idolatrous prac¬ 
tices of the Pagan worshippers of fire, they were 
forbidden to burn it before the sanctuary, or to 
offer it upon their altars of sacrifice. This is shown 
by the punishment inflicted upon Nadab and Abiu, 
the sons of Aaron, who were consumed for their 
oblation of “strange fire.” ( Leviticus , chap. 10.) 



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^ollateral J^ncicnt ^istorg. 

HE evidence gathered from the 
ancient burial crypts and mummy 
pits of Egypt, establish the fact 
that crude Petroleum in its more 
indurated forms, was extensively 
used in the process of embalm¬ 
ing. As bitumen and asphaltum 
it entered largely into the con-* 
struction of sewers and drains, 
and to the formation of pavements and hydraulic 
masonry. 

The various forms of Petroleum were known also 
to the Greeks and Romans, and in the writings of 
Julian, Tacitus, Pliny, Vitruvius, Strabo and Plu¬ 
tarch, mention is made of the igneoas springs of 
Apollonia and Ecbatana, of the wells of Burmah, 
the Caspian fields of fire and the burning fountains 
of Brahma. It was found also in one of the Ionian 
islands, Zacynthus, now called Zante, and is refer¬ 
red to by Herodotus as having been flowing for 
more than two thousand years. According to Di- 



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oscorides, it was found at Agrigentum, in Sicily, 
and burned in lamps from a period of remote anti¬ 
quity. In like manner, we find among the Aztecs 
on this continent, the same utilization of these nat¬ 
ural oils, and the same superstitious reverence for 
their sources of supply as prevailed in India, Persia 
and Greece, where they were regarded as hallowed 
shrines of Pagan worship. 



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OME idea of the extreme anti¬ 
quity of the religion of the fire- 
worshippers may be gleaned 
from the fact stated in Ste¬ 
phen’s History of Persia , that 
“Yezd, the chief residence of 
these ancient natives, who wor¬ 
ship the sun and fire, which 
latter they have kept carefully 
lighted without being once extinguished for more 


than three thousand years, is situated on a moun¬ 
tain called Afer Quedah.” 


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In Lalla Bookh, this noted spot is thus referred 
to : 


“From Yezd’s eternal mansion of the Fire, 

Where aged saints in dreams of heav’n expire; 

From Baku and those fountains of blue flame, 

That burn into the Caspian.” 

Hanway on the Everlasting Fire of Ba.ku f re¬ 
ferring to this stream of liquid flame, says: “When 
the weather is hazy, the springs of Naptha (on an 
island near Baku,) boil up higher and the naptha 
often takes fire on the surface of the earth, and runs, 
in a flame iuto the sea to a distance almost incredi¬ 
ble.” The same phenomena of spontaneous igni¬ 
tion is observed in the Petroleum lakes of Mexico, 
whenever the neighboring volcanic peaks of Ori¬ 
zaba and Tuxtla are wreathed with vapors. 

Around volcanoes, Petroleum is found frequently 
floating on the surface of the water, as near the 
Cape de Yerde islands; and to the south of Vesu¬ 
vius, in the gulf of Salerno, it spouts up as a foun¬ 
tain from the depths of the sea. 

Among the multiplied uses to which Petroleum 
in its various forms was applied by the ancients, 
was its employment in the art of war. Moore , in 


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his poem of the “ Veiled Prophet of KorassanV 
lluding to the Greek fire and other combustibles 
lade from inflammable oil by the Persians, and 
o the great festival of Fire called the “Sheb Seze,” 
ays: 

“The fierce beleaguers pour 
Engines of havoc in, unknown before, 

And horrible as new—javelins that fly 
Enwreathed with smoky flames through the dark sky, 
And red hot globes that opening as they mount, 
Discharge as from a kindled naptha fount, 

Showers of a consuming fire o’er all below, 

Looking as through the illumined night they go, 

Like those wild birds that by the magicians oft 

At festivals of fire were sent aloft 

Into the air with blazing faggots tied 

To their huge wings, scattering combustion wide !” 


On the west shore of the Caspian sea, which has 
been celebrated from a most distant period, the oil 
is collected by means of large open wells, sunk to 
a depth of sixteen or twenty feet, as it oozes from 
the strata. The oil is clear and pure, as if distilled, 
and resembles the faint yellow tint of Sauterne wine. 
In this respect it corresponds with the oil obtained 
from the miraculous well at the shrine of Guada- 
loupe, in Mexico, known as “ La Posita.” That 




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which flows from the sides of this immense tract on 
the Caspian shores is of a yellowish green color, 
changing to a reddish brown. This oil is intro¬ 
duced largely into Persia, and over large districts 
where no other material is used for artificial light. 



filiation in India 


OR an unknown period the whole 
Burman empire was supplied from 
the Rangoon district, on the Irra¬ 
waddy river. There, the trade is 
carried on by means of boats from 
the town of Rainanghong, a place 
inhabited exclusively by potters, 
who make the earthen jars for its 
transportation to the most remote 
markets of India. It is not improbable that the 
fiction of the “ Oil Merchant and the Forty 
Thieves” in the Arabian Nights, had its origin 
in the adventures of some wandering Petroleum 
dealer from Rangoon. According to Symes, in 
his “Embassy to Ava,” vol. II, the number of 
wells in this district is five hundred and twenty, 





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and the yearly yield of Petroleum for illuminating 
purposes in lamps more than four hundred thou¬ 
sand hogsheads, while large quantities are used 
for preserving timber from insects and as a 
medicine. 



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MIANO, and other places in 
northern Italy, furnish the sup¬ 
plies for lighting the cities of 
Parma and Genoa. In 1640, 
Petroleum was extracted from 
the earth in the Duchy of Mo¬ 
dena, by sinking pits in the 
ground, and collecting the fluid 
that exuded from the soil. 



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ASSING from the old world to 
the new we find in “Day’s His¬ 
tory of Pennsylvania,” an in¬ 
stance of the Indians using Pe¬ 
troleum as a mixture for £>aints, 
and for anointing themselves for 
religious purposes. Gen. Mont¬ 
calm, describing an assembly qf 
Indians at Fort Duquesne, in 
1756, notes their devotion to the burning springs, 
which reminded him of the accounts of the cere¬ 
monies of the Guebres or ancient Fire Worship¬ 
pers in the sacred city of Baku. 

But our knowledge of it came chiefly from the 
Seneca Indians, through their use and sale of it 
for medicinal purposes about 1819. It is, never¬ 
theless, not a little singular, that although the 
sources of supply were indicated long ago, the 
useful application of Petroleum in the United 
States was unappreciated for nearly forty years. 





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J[mteni ffl sc$, Application and A c ^ an ^9 cs of |{ock 

UT prior to any experience of our 
own, we have seen to what uses 
it was applied by the people of 
the old world. These may be re¬ 
capitulated thus: To illuminating 
purposes; to embalming the dead; 
to the art of war; to the preser¬ 
vation of timber; to hydraulic 
construction ; to the eradication 
of leperous diseases; to the mixture of paints; 
the manufacture of ointments; as a detergent and 
therapeutic agent, and as a sovereign panacea in 
rheumatic affections. To modern science has been 
left the determination of its value as a fuel; as an 
anti-friction agent; to its extraordinary power of 
cleansing textile fabrics; to its use in the produc¬ 
tion of colors, and its safety, purity and brilliancy 
as a source of artificial light. 




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N 1854, there began the initiatory 
steps of that stupendous revolution 
in the development of Petroleum, 
which during the subsequent ten 
years gave birth to a greater me- 
^ chanical progeny than has marked 
the fullest fruition of our national 
1 staples, cotton and tobacco. In 
18G3, the whole northern states 
were seized with a mania for Petroleum, which 
resulted not only in the wildest schemes of specu¬ 
lation, the grossest frauds, and the most reckless 
waste of the crude material, but it inaugurated a 
reign of financial terror at home and abroad that 
for awhile threatened the annihilation of Petro¬ 
leum altogether as a staple article of consumption, 
and finally culminated in the trite expression that 
“Petroleum had ruined every body,” whereas the 
truth is every body had ruined Petroleum, and 
the whole country witnessed not only the downfall 
of an army of rapacious speculators in oil, but every 
section was deluged with the spurious products of 
their creation. 


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S we set out to deal exclusively 
with facts in connection with 
Petroleum, let us not lose sight 
of the lamentable one, that the 
prevailing tendency of the age 
is to abandon real things for 
imitations and counterfeits. In 
fact, so great is this idiosyn- 
cracy, that there is scarcely a 
branch of trade, or an industrial pursuit which is 
not almost entirely absorbed in the sale or manu¬ 
facture of spurious imitations of natural products. 
At the present day it is almost impossible to 
obtain a genuine article of any kind whatever. 
But to no subject is this observation more espe¬ 
cially applicable than to Petroleum, and to no 
people in the world does it apply with greater 
force than those of the United States. 

In China, the best qualities of tea are retained 
for domestic consumption ; and, in like manner, 
France keeps her pure wines at home, that her 
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people may enjoy the exclusive prestige of a health¬ 
ful beverage. But we reverse the rule by sending 
our best productions abroad, and retaining the in¬ 
different and spurious. Thus, the annual exports of 
refined Petroleum for the past year have exceeded 
two millions of barrels at a market valuation of 
over twenty-five millions of dollars in gold. 


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HE orders received from the 
European continent, especially 
Russia, (where it has been in¬ 
troduced by the well-known 
firm of Winans Brothers, of 
Baltimore,) will control all the 
heavy motific lubricating oils, 
of from 26° to 30° gravity, as 
at present produced in Western 
Virginia. These oils as shipped to Russia, are 
exclusively used in the railroad and machine shops 
of that country. From the fact that this oil as a 
motific lubricator is impervious to the cold or heat 






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of the atmosphere, and is superior to all animal or 
vegetable oils, or other compounds, all others are 
subject to offensive rancid smells and vapors in 
high temperature, and congealment in low tem¬ 
perature, but the great alchemist of nature has 
stamped this product with the seal of its purity. 

Meanwhile, what remains of the surplus annual 
production of the wells is largely adulterated for 
the southern markets, and numerous fraudulent imi¬ 
tations of this lubricating or motific oil are manufac¬ 
tured to a considerable extent at Cincinnati, Cleave- 
land, Pittsburg, Parkersburg and other points.— 
Most of them are made from still bottoms or tar 
remaining in the still after distillation of ordinary 
light Petroleum. It is then mingled with lighter 
oil until it attains a consistency representing the 
usual gravities of natural motific oil, and oftentimes 
it is colored to resemble the dark greenish hue of 
the genuine. The ice test causes it instantly to 
clot, and if a small quantity be poured upon 
sheet of white paper, or placed between two pieces 
of plate glass the impurities are at once apparent. 

The best endorsement and evidence for the claims 
for purity, as set forth for this oil, is that the divine 
wisdom, in its pharmacy, has blessed this product 


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with curative and medicinal properties for all cuta¬ 
neous diseases, for sores, burns, and irruptions, as 
also for chronic asthma, &e., it has no superior. 


: jdroti'um : Humming |)il. 


ETROLEUM Illumining Oil is 
fearfully counterfeited. The ex¬ 
porter requires all oils shipped to 
European markets to be 110° fire 
test, and the same to be evidenc¬ 
ed by sworn inspectors, and all 
rejected by them is marked a 3 
adulterated, and forced upon the 
market for home consumption or 
shipped to the southern states or the tropics, where 
the evenness of temperature helps to conceal the 
spurious ingredients that are chemically combined 
or artificially mixed with certain quantities of genu¬ 
ine oil. 

The extent to which this system of adulteration 
is carried is almost incredible. It has, in fact, be¬ 
come a crime which outstrips, in the magnitude of 
its dangerous consequences, all other counterfeits. 







HE distinguishing characteristics 
of pure Illuminating oil are two; 
the fire test 110° and the color , 
“standard white.” But by the 
admixture of a cheap, heavy 
oil, distilled from parrafine and 
other refuse material of the fac¬ 
tories, the fire test may be ele¬ 
vated to 140°, and, so long as 
the temperature of the oil is kept at summer heat; 
no one but an expert can detect the fraud. The 
moment a sample is poured upon a piece of ice, 
the heavy oil begins to thicken and forms a 
cloudy, musky color. But the short-hand test, 
whenever resorted to, will enable the buyer to 
readily distinguish between pure oil and that which 
is mixed. 

This practical “short-hand test” is to apply one 
or more lighted matches to a tumbler of this ordi¬ 
nary oil; it will immediately flash, ignite, and burn, 
whereas pure genuine, unadulterated oil, of legal 




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fire test 110°, will not ignite, but will extinguish 
one, two or three lighted matches when dipped 
directly into the oil. 

The fraud in color is perpetrated by retaining a 
larger per centage of Benzine, and by the well 
known process of washing with acids. Then, to 
deaden the explosive tendencies of this inflammable 
substance, salt, lime, pearlash, camphor, &c., are 
extensively employed. Through means like these, 
and with no other basis than Benzine, Gasoline and 
the oil distilled from the refuse of the factories—in 
other words, by combining the first and last pro¬ 
ducts of the distillation of crude Petroleum a host 
of spurious and highly dangerous compounds, under 
the fictitious names of 


Ligorine, 
Anchor Oil, 
Astraline, 
Estrella, 


Light House, 
Petro-Oil, 
Crystal Oil, 
Liquid Gas, 


Crystalline, &c., &e. 


Are sold at low rates and palmed off upon the 
community, “scattering combustion wide” 


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raudss. 


HE same system of frauds is 
practised in the manufacture of 
what is called “Deodorized 
Benzine” the sale of which is 
limited chiefly to druggists, who 
vend it in small vials or packa¬ 
ges at high rates It is claimed 
for this article, that it is an 
effectual detergent, and is exten¬ 
sively used for cleaning gloves, removing stains 
from furniture, grease-spots from clothing, &c. 
But this empirical fluid is simply a volatile pro¬ 
duct of the first distillation of crude Petroleum, 
impregnated with acrid substances, and highly 
dangerous from its excessive inflammability.— 
Although sold under the questionable name of De¬ 
odorized Benzine , it has a rank, burnt odor, re¬ 
sembling distillate, that not only permeates the 
packages in which it is contained, but it impreg¬ 
nates everything in contact with it, with an offen¬ 
sive smell, even long after the stuff itself has evap¬ 
orated. 





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So eager for gain, and so barefaced haye the 
producers of these spurious articles become, that 
county and town rights of the mere recipe for 
their manufacture, are sold throughout the south¬ 
ern and western states, where the only condition 
demanded by the buyer is, that the article shall 
be cheap, and the only caution observed by the 
vendor, that it shall present the external appear¬ 
ance of being genuine. 



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||^ume of On 1 ^dulterations in |}itfi. 

H TJ S, we have endeavored to 
show how the three standard 
products of Petroleum, in the 
United States, are debased, 
adulterated and counterfeited, 
by unscrupulous producers, and 
how grossly the consumers are 
imposed upon, through appeals 
to their parsimoniousness, under 
the specious pretexts of practical economy. 

The impurities contained in all these counterfeits 
are fatal objections to their use at any price. In 
most cases the consumer makes his purchase in 
good faith.- If he buys an illuminating oil, and 
liis lamp exploding sets fire to his house; if the 
first notice he receives that he has been fraudu¬ 
lently dealt with in the purchase of a lubricator, 
by the destruction of his boxes and journals; or, 
if he discovers that his wardrobe has been ruined 
by the use of a miscalled detergent, he learns when 
it is too late, that his lessons in the school of eco¬ 
nomy have been imparted by false and knavish 

teachers. 

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Injects a«‘t Jttrjosra of J. |j. |o. 

HE object, purpose and aim of 
the Dubreuil Oil Works 
Company of Baltimore, has 
been, and is, to remedy these 
evils of the trade, by the pro¬ 
duction of a trinity of genuine 
articles, that for safety, bril¬ 
liancy, purity, utility and true 
economy , shall defy both imita¬ 
tion and competition, viz: 

I. Petroleum Illumining Oil ; 

II. Alembical Lustral Spirits; and 

III. Natural Motific Oil. 

The value, properties and advantages of each of 
which, we will now briefly illustrate seriatum. 

In order that the public may be fully protected 
against imposition, the Dubreuil Oil Works Co. 
have adopted a special trade mark— the antique 
vestal lamp, with the motto “ Fiat Lux ”—and for 
each of the articles manufactured by them, a dis- 








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tinctive colored label on the packages. Thus: 
Red for No. I; Blue for No. II; and Green for 
No. III. The characteristics of their 

PETROLEUM ILLUMINING OIL, are: 

1st. Safety. This oil is warranted standard 
legal fire test of over 110°, which is a positive 
guarantee against all explosive accidents. 

2d. Brilliancy. It is a white transparent color; 
burns with a clear, brilliant flame, in any tempera¬ 
ture, and is adapted to any lamp, without corrod¬ 
ing wicks, emitting smoke, smell or offensive vapor. 

3d. Purity. It is manufactured by French Pat¬ 
ented Process from selected crude Petroleum of 
West Virginia and Pennsylvania. 

4th. Uniformity. This oil contains no volatile 
elements or parrafinic substances, and is therefore 
not subject to climatic or alternative transitions. 

5th. Economy. Being essentially pure, safe, bril¬ 
liantly illuminating, and uniform, it is adapted to 
drawing-rooms, parlors, kitchens, stores, steamers, 
sailing vessels, &c., &c. It is sold in Banker’s 
patent metal cans, encased in wood, with his ex¬ 
tension nozzle, thus facilitating the drawing off of 


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the oil, and rendering the whole so safe, economi¬ 
cal, portable and sweet, that any grocer, druggist 
or fancy store-keeper in the United States can 
merchandize it with profit and advantage. 




O distinguish this invaluable pro- 


duct of Petrole um, from the 


^ dangerous substance known as 


l Deodorized Benzine, this expres- 
sive name has been given to it, 
and its leading features may be 
§ stated as follows: 


First. It is manufactured from 
crude Petroleum by French pat¬ 


ented alembical process, and is one of the most 
effective detergents known to modern chemistry. 

Second. It is unalterable in any temperature or 
climate, and it can be used with entire safety, being 
no more liable than alcohol to explosion. 

Third. It is colorless and inodorous , and being 
free from all deleterious acids or compounds, it can 




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be employed to remove grease spots from velvets, 
silks, ribbons, and other textile fabrics without in¬ 
jury to the quality, lustre or color, by simply pass¬ 
ing a sponge, or other soft substance, saturated 
with the spirits, over the article. 

Fourth. It is also useful in removing stains 
from furniture; cleansing printers’ forms, stereo¬ 
type plates, &c., and it is an excellent substitute 
for turpentine in the mixture of paints and var¬ 
nishes. 

Fifth. It is besides a wholesome disinfectant of 
mattresses and clothing, and a certain annihilator 
of moths, bed-bugs, and all manner of insects. It 
is convenient for use, permanent in its effects and 
the cheapest purifying detergent that can be sold. 

For safety and facility in transportation, and for 
economy in is use, it is packed in Banker’s patent 
metal cans, with the same appliances as used for 
the Illumining Oil, and distinguished by a blue 
colored label 




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Jjalural j|oiific |j)it. 

HE innumerable host of counter¬ 
feits and spurious imitations of 
the Natural Lubricating Oils, 
have been deemed a sufficient 
reason for the Dubreuil Oil 
Works Company to adopt the 
term Motific Oil , for the anti¬ 
friction agent manufactured by 
them, and under this new and 
simple name to contend against the trite and hack¬ 
neyed trade term of “Lubricators,” by means of 
which so many fraudulent productions are forced 
upon the market. For their oil they claim the 
following advantages: 

1st. Uniformity. By mechanical process this oil 
is rendered entirely free from all silicious particles, 
imprisoned water, or gummy and parrifinous depo¬ 
sits. It is, therefore, clean and of uniform grade. 

2d. Safety. Being absolutely inexplosive, it is 
suited to every kind of machinery, and always re- 





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mains fluid, thereby insuring the most economical 
results as a lubricator. 

3d. Purity. Being exempt from all acrid sub¬ 
stances, which are so destructive to metallic sur¬ 
faces, it not only cleanses all the polished parts of 

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the machine, but it preserves them from rust or 
friction. 

4th. Lubricity. As an anti-friction agent it is 
superior to all of the animal or vegetable oils, 
always maintaining its consistency, whether at rest, 
or in motion, in winter or summer. 

5th. Utility. Being pure, limpid, safe, unchang¬ 
ing in character, and free from all injurious con¬ 
stituents, it is useful for all industrial and economi¬ 
cal purposes, involving the use of machinery, or to 
overcome friction. 

It is packed and sold in Banker’s patent metal 
cans, like the articles previously described, and in¬ 
dicated by a green label. 




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ans. 


LL of these products are packed 
and sold in Banker’s Patent 
Metallic five and ten gallon 
cans, with extension nozzle, 
which greatly facilitates the 
drawing off of the oil without 
waste or leakage, thus render¬ 
ing each and every package so 
safe, clean, economical, porta¬ 
ble, sweet and desirable that any grocer, druggist 
or fancy store keeper in the United States can mer¬ 
chandise them with profit and advantage. 

The Dubreuil Oil Works Co., of Baltimore, 
Md., have contracted with the patentee for the 
control and exclusive privilege in the states of 
New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and West 
Virginia, of casing Petroleum and its products 
in these valuable packages. 

The prominent features of merchandizing oil 3 
and spirits in these packages are: 

1st. Freight and insurance are cheaper. 


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2d. The jobber and retailer are supplied at a 
stated price with a liberal discount. 

3d. Free from imperfections and not liable to 
evaporate, waste or leak. 



ttsion. 


For all the advantages, properties and qualities 
claimed for this trinity of products from Petro¬ 
leum the Dubreuil Oil Works Co., and Messrs. 
Ammidon, Crombie & Co., hold themselves re¬ 
sponsible. 




SMITH, PAGE & CO., 

Baltimore** 




ANUFACTURERS 


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FOR THE 





DUBEEUIL 


Oil Works Company. 


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CEjr tifica tes 


—■-WIVB- 

As an evidence of the growing favor with which these packages 
are received by the leading underwriters, manufacturers and 
shippers in the United States, we append the following letters and 
certificates. 


St. Louis, August 25th, 1868 . 

The undersigned, feeling a deep interest in every improvement 
calculated to make life and property more secure; and believing 
that “ Banker’s Patent Safety Cans,” for packing, storing and 
shipping Coal Oil, Benzine, Spirits Turpentine, Alcohol and Var¬ 
nishes, and are better adapted for such purposes than any other 
packages with which we are acquainted, recommend them to man¬ 
ufacturers, dealers and consumers, and we hereby agree to insure, 
without additional premium, stocks of goods where the above 
named articles, in Banker’s Safety Cans, (properly corked and 
sealed) are kept on hand. 

Edw Brooks, Sec. Boatman’s Ins. Co.; Wm. A. Brawner, Insur¬ 
ance Agt.; John J. Roe, Pres’t U. S. Ins. Co.; Clinton B. Fisk A Co., 
Gen. Ins. Agents; Walter B. Foster, Sec’y Pacific Ins. Co.; H. M. 
Blossom, Sec’y Globe Mutual Ins. Co ; R. W. Church, Sec’y Com¬ 
mercial Ins. Co.; G. W. McGunnegle, Pres’t St. Louis Ins. Co.; Hart 
& Bissell, Gen. Ins. Agents; W. D’Oench, Pres. Franklin Ins , Co.; 
Morton and Bro., Insurance Agents; A. W. Howe. Insurance Agt.; 
Wm. Nisbet & Co., Agents Howard Insurance Co., N. Y. 


Chicago, July 2d, 1868 . 

The undersigned, manufacturers and tvholesale dealers, having 
examined “Banker’s Safety Can,” for shipping Oils, Turpentine, 
Alcohol, Benzine, Varnish, Molasses and other liquids, consider 
them the most reliable, convenient and desirable packages, for 
shipping purposes, as well as for home use, with which we are 
acquainted, and cheerfully recommend them for general use. 

Fuller, Finch A Fuller; J. H. Reed A Co.; Lord A Smith; Burn¬ 
hams A Vansohaack; Smith A Dwyer; Tolman, Crosby A Co.; Page 
A Sprague; Holkers & Co.; Lewis, Ham A Co.; Heath A Millegan; 
Penn Oil Co.; J. F. Warren A Co.; John Alston; Chase, Hanford A 
Co.; Callender A Paekwoods; Morris, Hodge A Homer; Knowles, 
Cloves A Co.; Child A Briggs; Taylor A Wright; Sprague, Warren 
A Co.; Wells A Faulkner; Granniss A Farwell; Day, Allen A Co.; 
Fairbank, Peck A Co.; Western White Lead Co; DeGolyer A Bro.; 
J. Liebenstein A Co. 




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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 


0 033 266 769*5 

St. Louis, Mo., February lat, 1808. 


The undersigned, manufacturers and wholesale dealers, have, 
during the past four j'ears, used large numbers of “Bankers 
Patent Safety Cans,” for shipping Oils, Spirits Turpentine, Alco¬ 
hol, Benzine, Varnishes, Molasses and other liquids, by wagon 
across the “Plains,” and to all portions of the country traversed 
by steam, with entire satisfaction to ourselves and friends, and we 
consider them the most reliable, convenient and desirable pack¬ 
age for shipping purposes, as well as for home use, with which we 
are acquainted. 

Thos. Richeson, Pres. Collier White Lead and Oil Co.; Geo. P. 
Whitelaw & Co.; Jas. 8. Waters, Sec. St. Louis Lead and Oil Co.; L. 
C. Pike & Co.; Brown & Hale; Meyer, Bros. <fc Co.; G. W. Woltman 
& Co.; W. D’Oench & Co.; Brown, Weber & Graham ; Tutt & Baker; 
Hudson Brothers; Wilson & Reach; D. A. January <fc Co.; Moody, 
Michel & Co.; Sam’l McCartney & Co.; Z. F. \Vetzell & Co.; Jno. J. 
Roe; N. Schaeffer; Richardson & Co.; Scott & Mellier; Blow, Curd 
& Co.; Triplett, Hanson & Co.; Reed & Green; Goodwin, Behr & Co. 


A t 

NEW CLASSIFICATION. \ 

Chicago, June 29 th, 18G8. 

The following Railroad Companies agree to make liquids in 
“ Banker’s Safety Cans,” the same class as barrels for the same 
quantity or number of packages. 

Jas. Smith, Gen’l Freight Ag’t Chicago, Alton & St. Louis R. R. 

E. P. Wadsworth, Gen’l Freight Ag’tC. B. & Q R. R. 

J. F. Tucker, Gen’l Freight Ag't Illinois Cential R. R. 

Louis Vide, Gen 1 Freight Ag’t C., R. I. & P. R. R. 

H. W. Hibbard, Gen’l Freight Ag’t T. H. & I. II. R. 

W. O. Lewis, Gen’l Freight Ag’t Pacific R. R. 

T. C. Spooner, Gen’l Freight Ag’t St. L. & I. R. R. 

Chas. F. Hatch, Sup’t Michigan Southern R. R. 

Chas. S. Tappan, Gen’l Freight Agent C. & N. W. R. W. 

C. W. Smith, Gen’l Freight Ag’t C., C. & I. C. R. R. 

Thos. Hoope, Gen’l Freight Ag’t Michigan Central R. R. 

Clinton B. Fisk, Sup't S. W. P. R. R. 

J. A. Hill, Gen’l Freight Ag’t O. & M. R. R. 

It is unnecessary to enlarge upon the great advantages which the 
foregoing letters indicate to the buyers of articles that are packed 
in these cans. 





